Crenshaw is
now accepting student registrations for the 2010-11 school year for PK (3 &
4 years old) through 9th grade
"The
highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they
become by it." ~ John Ruskin
ENERGIZE
YOUR SUMMER WITH BREAKFAST & LUNCH!!!
Galveston ISD Child Nutrition is sponsoring the
2010 Summer Food Service Program. Nutritious breakfast and lunch will be
provided FREE of charge to anyone ages 1-18 years, regardless of income. Adults
can purchase breakfast for $1.25 and lunch for $2.75. Meals will be provided
from June 7 to July 30, 2010 at Crenshaw School Cafeteria located at 416 Hwy 87
in Crystal Beach, TX. Please note that July 5th will be a holiday
and the school is closed that day.
Just a bit of beach activity to share with you below.... Glorious weekend!!
***Announcement***
The Bolivar Beach Buddies
will be handing out
trash bags on the beach July 4th weekend to help keep our beaches
clean.To help please contact the Chamber 409.684.5940 or Mac McDonald
409.684.1827.
IN PREPARATION OF THE 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS...
One of the "usual" numerous fireworks stands opening throughout the USA and our own Bolivar Peninsula as well in preparation of the 4th of July celebration.
Light up the Night
Fireworks Display
Event:
Light up the Night Fireworks Display
Start Time: Saturday, July 3 at 7:00pm
End Time: Saturday, July 3 at 10:00pm
Where: Go to the beach at Alma
Road (see map below) & turn right. Bring your own beach
chair!
Show will start at dark. Crystal Beach ,Texas
"LETS
COME
DOWN TO HELP REBUILD OUR MUSIC PARK ON PLEASURE ISLAND...".
Event: Ride to PleasureIsland
What: Rally
Gates Open: Friday, July 2 at 12 noon
End Time: Sunday, July 4
Where: Pleasure Island, Port ArthurTx.
Gilchrist
Community Association
Membership Drive
Dues:
$25 Personal;
Business/Corpate
$240:
Mail to: PO Box
186;
High Island, Texas77623;
Working
together for a beter BolivarPeninsula,
Helping to
Keep Fisin Rollover!
The Gilchrist Community Association Needs
YOUR HELP!
The
regular monthly scheduled GCA meeting for JULY will be held on July 12th instead
of the first Monday of the month. We will be actively renewing
memberships and focusing on our yearly membership drive. Also, the GCA is
partnering with PENDECO, (a non-profit organization for the peninsula) working
to acquire grants for providing for recreational facilities for Gilchrist in
the event that Rollover Pass is closed. We are continuing our vigilance
in keeping the Pass open and free to the public but do not want to miss the
opportunity to try to get help from the state, or the federal government to
have something else in place, such as piers, jetties, etc., that will rebuild
our small community. Please try to make this meeting. It will be
held at the usual place, the First Baptist church in HighIsland
at 7:00pm.
Also,
the Board has a special request to pray for one of our own, George Kahla.
George has been a part of the GCA from its inception in the '80's and has
played an integral part in helping to keep the Pass open as well as maintained.
George was diagnosed with liver cancer recently and is need of our
support. He is a hard-working, HighIsland man who has lived
on the peninsula his entire life and writes many articles and leaflets
concerning different political issues that concern us locally on the Bolivar
peninsula. We appreciate your support and thank you.
"In
this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest
lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the
easiest." ~ Henry Miller
Some of our readers
really enjoy the ease
of getting around to these links. Just CLICK on the link below.
We are Christ's ambassadors,
and God is using us to speak to you. ~ 1 Corinthians 5:20 NLT
Storms over Romania
In the summer of 1990,
following the overthrow of the communist regime in Romania, a number of Romanian
church leaders invited me to return to the country for a preaching mission in
four cities. I will long remember the first night in Timisoara. I was preaching the gospel in a
stadium that had been built to promote and proclaim communism. When I gave the
invitation following the message, I thought my translator, Peter, had
misinterpreted what I had said and dismissed the crowd. It seemed as though
everyone got up to leave. I then realized the people were not leaving, they
were responding to the invitation to accept Christ!
After several nights of rich
harvests, we began meetings in the city of Medias. As I was preaching, a storm
approached the stadium. The wind began to blow, and I could see a huge black
cloud approaching. I knelt on the platform and prayed, "Lord God, there
are people in this stadium who have never heard the gospel. They may never have
another opportunity. I ask that You stay the storm and allow us to
continue."
Several American businessmen
in our ministry team were sitting in the top rows of the stadium that evening.
They later reported that as the storm approached, it literally divided and went
around the stadium. In the path of the storm, houses were destroyed, trees were
uprooted, and power lines were downed. But in the stadium, we continued the
service, and hundreds of people gave their lives to Christ that night. To God
be all the glory! ~ Steve
Wingfield in Live
the Adventure
Adapted from The Prayer Bible Jean E. Syswerda,
general editor, Tyndale House Publishers (2003), p 1593. Digging Deeper: Read To Fly Again, the follow-up to In the Presence of My Enemies,
in which Gracia Burnham reflects on the lessons and spiritual truths she
learned in the jungle and how they apply to anyone's life. Content is derived from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation
and other publications of Tyndale Publishing House
PRESS RELEASE Important Information About Your Property Taxes!
"The
golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your
environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in
yourself alone." ~ Orison Swett Marden
A Really
(Really) Bad Hair Day!
(Synopsis): TV stars and others reflect on past
hurricane "Pita" which occurred several years ago. A possible new storm named "Mike" is
approaching the coast. Everyone hopes
that if another one comes, officials will have learned from past mistakes and
create better plans.
Some of the well known phrases the people of
Bolivar are very familiar with such as, "I from the government and I am here to
help", "what do you mean I can't go this way", "who's in charge here?" are used
throughout the performance of a novelty of antics to help us all subside our
recent feelings of despair.
Even though, here we are right at the beginning of hurricane
season and poking fun!! Hah!
Just as some of the smiling faces of the cast
members (shown below), The endurance of the people of Bolivar will continue.
Tar Balls
Tar balls have been found on BolivarPeninsula
beaches for a long time but with the oil spill there is concern that we will
eventually get lots more. So if you find large tar balls please report them to
GLO at their oil spill number 1-800-832-8224. They are trying to get base line
data for our coast.
Winnie Burkett
Friendswood & the BolivarPeninsula
Attention
Arts
and Crafts Vendors! A JANE LONG FESTIVAL IS BEING ORGANIZED FOR
OCTOBER 2010 We are looking for vendors and on site demonstrations of
early crafts and/or homemaking remedies that were in use and /or
popular
around the turn of the century, ie, making horseshoes, soap, canning,
woodcrafts, quilting , banjo/guitar players, mimes, etc.. Vendors are
asked to
submit a description of their products or art work for approval so as
not
to have too many duplications. Please include contact information.
Booth rent will be very reasonable for this one day event. The purpose
is
to raise money for improvements but mostly to create awareness of FortTravis
on BolivarPeninsula so that
it may become eligible
for Federal Funding for major improvements and promotion.
A drama production will be presented about the life of Jane Long "The
Mother of Texas" and vendors are asked to dress in costumes of
the era..As well as those attending!
Thank you!
To register, Please contact: Barbara Prenger or Ed Prenger, Booth
Chairpersons,
Jane Long Festival
c/o PO Box 45, High Island Tx 77623 ~ 409-286-5318 ~ 409-771-9837 - cell
(hers)
~409-502-0495 - cell (his)
The Galveston
Tree Carvings.....
If you have not seen these, you might
want to take time out to watch the beauty captured through these maimed trees
because of recent storms.One of our
readers wanted to share this with the rest of you.
"The
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust
CAJUN CORNER
Boudreaux &
Thibodeaux went an got themselves jobs helpin' cleanup the oil spill. The
boss man told them to head to Grand Isle to help clean sum brown pelicans. Within an hour they already had 34 skinned & browning in a pot
before they got fired. (My mother said, "Oh mais, The boss man didn't tell Boudreaux & Thibodeaux the right ting. If he didn't want them skinned, he shudda said dat.")
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